Water Shortage Quotes

“For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I want to be done with tears, and the day is too beautiful for them anyway. Nevertheless, I consider my tears for a moment, the idea of them, a link to the earth’s ancient origins. I’m comforted by the notion that I carry a bit of the sea within myself wherever I go. It’s nice to think that water is not such an exotic thing after all.”
― Denise Getson

“I glance at the sky, but there are no clouds. There are never clouds. I know what clouds look like only because of the digital images in our lessons at school. I know someone who has been north, to the mountains, and swears she saw clouds. Perhaps she’s telling the truth, but I doubt it.”
― Denise Getson, Dry Souls

“Rising temperatures are boosting evaporation rates, altering rainfall patterns, and melting the glaciers that feed rivers during the dry season.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“No one knows exactly how many lakes have disappeared over the last half-century, but we do know that thousands of them now exist only on old maps.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization